Areas

• personal essay
• writing and healing
• creative nonfiction
• science fiction and fantasy

Degrees

• B.A. English/Music, Syracuse University
• M.A. English, Syracuse University
• Ph.D. Humanities, Syracuse University

Some Publications

• The Mind's Eye: Image and Memory in Writing About Trauma. University of Massachusetts Press, 2007.
• "Witnesses into the Future," personal essay, Ararat. Summer 2001.
• "Truth, Trauma, and Justice in Gillian Slovo's Every Secret Thing," article. Literature and Medicine. June 2000.
• "Writing and Healing," Ithaca College Quarterly. Summer 2000.
• Writing and Healing, co-authored with Charles Anderson. NCTE Press. 2000.
• "Food for the Gods," personal essay, Ararat. Summer 1998.
• "The Grape Arbor," "For the Women Warriors," "Apparition," and "Shooting Star," poems, Ararat. Spring 1996.
• "From Image to Narrative: The Politics of the Personal." Journal of Teaching Writing. Spring 1995.
• "There Was and There Was Not," review of Rise The Euphrates by Carol Edgarian. Ararat. Spring 1995.
• "Virginia Bluebells" and "Tears," poems. Ararat. Summer 1994.
• "The Four Women of the Apocalypse: Feminine Images in Magazine Advertisements." In Utopia and Gender in Advertising: A Critical Reader. Eds. Luigi Manca and Alessandra Manca. Procopian Press, distributed by Syracuse University Press. 1994.
• "Irony" and "Healing," poems. Journal of Poetry Therapy. Winter 1992.
• "Eliza," personal essay. Ararat. Winter 1992.
• "Diamond Dust," poem. Raft. Fall 1991.
• "Migraine," poem. Room of our Own. The Women's Writing Workshop. Spring 1990.
• "Bitch or Goddess: Polarized Images of Women in Arthurian Film." Platte Valley Review. Winter 1990.